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A Lenovo ThinkPad X201 Tablet. My first ever ThinkPad, a very useful tool for my studies. It has been my daily driver, on and off, for over a year and a half in total. I really like it when I compute on the go, especially on trains or on mountains (not to be confused with mountain). I now try to bring it with me and use it wherever, just to add to the list on this page.

Specifications

  • Product ID: 45N4955
  • Core i5-520UM
  • Intel HD Graphics
  • 12.1" 1280×800 (WXGA) TFT display
  • Wacom Serial Penabled Pen
  • 8GB PC3-8500 RAM
  • SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB 19136F805340
  • Ricoh 5-in-1 Multicard Reader
    • I never knew it supported anything other than SD cards…
    • TODO: Test with a Memory Stick
  • Intel 10/100/1000 Ethernet
  • Intel HD audio with CX20585 codec
  • ThinkPad Modem (MDC-3.0, 56kbps HDA)
  • 2 MiniPCI Express slots:
    • Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 Wi-Fi card
    • Qualcomm Gobi 2000 3G and GPS card, Verizon-locked
  • ExpressCard/54 slot
  • 2MP webcam
  • UPEK Touchstrip TCRD4C fingerprint reader
  • Broadcom BCM2046 Bluetooth Controller
  • TPM 1.2 embedded security system
  • HDAPS support
  • UltraNav trackpoint
  • Intel Active Management Technology 6.x

Places it went to

Just taking it with me without doing anything does not count; I have to turn it on and use it for a place to enter this list. This list is unordered. I sometimes add some fun things I did in each place, when I remember them.

  • Grenoble
    • My student room
      • Daily driver for a year
      • Helped set up Carthage
    • My first apartment
    • At my best friend's place in Championnet
    • On a hill near the Désert de l'Écureuil
      • Maintenance on an autonomous webcam and weather station
    • IGA (abandoned geography institute)
      • Saw the Tour de France on a road down there while listening to the organizer's radio comms
    • Institut Dolomieu (abandoned geology institute)
      • Tried to draw some floorplans, and ate breakfast there
    • Charmant Som (a summit)
      • Listed QRZs received during a hamradio contest
      • Answered random people's questions about the 6 meter-high antenna we deployed there
    • La Coop
    • La Turbine
  • Lille
    • Lille-Flandres train station
    • Gaston Berger high school
      • Removed the Windows partition, making it my first Linux-only computer
      • Solved riddles in law class using regexes
      • Played games, wrote blog articles, learnt Python during classes
    • Lille university
      • IUT
      • Pierant's room
      • Liliad (library)
    • Plugged into a dead drop
    • On the stairs to the opera
    • Walking around a neighborhood
      • Got a few WEP passwords using wifite
  • Wattrelos
    • My great-aunt's house
  • Douai
    • At home
    • Walking around the city center, breaking into WEP passwords using Kali-Linux
    • "Le Prince" kebab restaurant
      WEP password: 1122334455
    • F.P.'s place
  • Brest
    • My aunt's apartment
      • Configured a router
  • Le Folgoët
    • My grandparents' house
      • Watching movies
  • Thionville
    • My parents' home
      • Daily driver for a few months
      • Typed this list
  • Paris
    • Teklia's previous office
  • Carcassonne
    • My grandparents' house
      • Finished a 4+ month-long group project alone in 2 days
  • Trains
    • Grenoble → Valence TGV
    • Valence TGV → Paris-Lyon
    • Grenoble → Lyon Perrache
    • Lyon Part-Dieu → Paris-Lyon
    • Grenoble → Paris-Lyon
    • Paris-Lyon → Grenoble
    • Douai → Lille Flandres
    • Lille Flandres → Douai
      • Worked on my first C# project, a coffee machine simulator
      • Played with my Windows 98SE VM
      • Rewrote my French blog

Alpine setup

wsinatra got me interested in Alpine, and I am having issues with Ubuntu 20 on most computers with tank being the worst affected, so I am looking into switching it to Alpine. This section has some notes on setting it up with LVM on LUKS on a virtual machine before I really switch to it; encryption really matters to me on this specific laptop because I carry it everywhere.

  1. Go through setup-alpine until the disk prompt, then ^C
  2. apk add lvm2 cryptsetup parted haveged e2fsprogs syslinux
  3. rc-service haveged start
  4. parted -a optimal
    1. mklabel msdos
    2. mkpart primary ext4 0% 100M
    3. mkpart primary ext4 100M 100%
    4. set 1 boot on Use print to check.
  5. haveged -n 0 | dd of=/dev/sda2
  6. cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda2
    TODO: try cryptsetup -v -c serpent-xts-plain64 -s 512 --hash whirlpool --iter-time 5000 --use-random luksFormat /dev/sda2
  7. cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 lvmcrypt
  8. pvcreate /dev/mapper/lvmcrypt
  9. vgcreate vg0 /dev/mapper/lvmcrypt
  10. lvcreate -L 9G vg0 -n swap
  11. lvcreate -l 100%FREE vg0 -n root
    TODO: Also add a separate volume for /home
  12. lvscan to check
  13. mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
  14. mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg0/root
  15. mkswap /dev/vg0/swap
  16. swapon /dev/vg0/swap
  17. mount -t ext4 /dev/vg0/root /mnt/
  18. mkdir -v /mnt/boot
  19. mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
  20. setup-disk -m sys /mnt/
  21. Add /dev/vg0/swap\tswap\tdefaults\t0 0 to /mnt/etc/fstab
  22. Add cryptsetup and keymap to the features in /mnt/etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf
  23. mkinitfs -c /mnt/etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf -b /mnt/ $(ls /mnt/lib/modules/)
  24. blkid -s UUID -o value /dev/sda2 > ~/uuid
  25. Set the proper UUID in /mnt/etc/update-extlinux.conf: default_kernel_opts="… cryptroot=UUID=<THE UUID> cryptdm=lvmcrypt"
    Also check this: 
    modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4,cryptsetup,keymap,cryptkey,kms,lvm
root=UUID=<UUID of /dev/mapper/vg0-root>
  26. chroot /mnt/
  27. update-extlinux
    May cause errors on /boot, ignore them
  28. exit
  29. dd bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/mnt/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda
  30. cd
  31. umount /mnt/boot
  32. swapoff /dev/vg0/swap
  33. umount /mnt
  34. vgchange -a n
  35. cryptsetup luksClose lvmcrypt
  36. reboot
  37. Enable the community repo in /etc/apk/repositories
  38. apk update
  39. setup-xorg-base xfce4 xfce4-terminal lightdm-gtk-greeter xfce4-screensaver dbus-x11 sudo
  40. apk add xf86-video-intel xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard setxkbmap elogind polkit-elogind gvfs-fuse gvfs-mtp fuse-openrc thunar-volman udisks2
  41. Update the Xorg config: 
    Section "InputClass"
	Identifier	"Keyboard Default"
MatchIsKeyboard	"yes"
Option		"XkbLayout" "fr"
Option		"XkbVariant" "oss"
Option		"XkbOptions" "compose:rctrl"
EndSection
  42. adduser -g lucidiot lucidiot
  43. visudo to allow lucidiot
  44. rc-service dbus start
  45. rc-update add dbus
  46. rc-service lightdm start
  47. Once everything works, rc-update add lightdm
  48. rc-service fuse start
  49. rc-update add fuse